Baltimore County, MD Time of Your LIfe, 30 Jun 2021

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From YouTube: Summer Youth Employment Program Supporting CyberSeniors

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Vernelle Mitchell-Hawkins, Baltimore County 4-H Educator
University of Maryland Extension

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Welcome back to the time of your life., I'm your host, ethel rasmussen..

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Our show today concludes with a wonderful summer program that educates and trains, adults in technology.

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Here with us to talk about the program is vernelle mitchell-hawkins,.

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A baltimore county, 4-h educator, with the university of maryland extension. vernelle,, welcome to the show. thank you,. Ethel., it's good to be here.. Can you provide an overview of the university of maryland's extension summer youth employment program.

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As well as the 4-h program?.

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Absolutely. baltimore county,.

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4-H has been running a workforce development program for three years now, since 2018.

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What we do is we give our teen groups in ages, 15-18,.

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We give them the experience of being out in a career in the stem-based career, so.

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They get to try on some different careers that they might be interested in.

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Last summer was the first year that we partnered with baltimore county summer youth, employment, program..

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Our youth are able to not only try on a career but also make a wage.

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That added a little bit more of a exciting treat for them.

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The summer youth employment program is supporting cyber-seniors.

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What is cyber-seniors' function and goals?.

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Cyber-Seniors is a national, non-profit, organization,.

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And their goal is to pair teams,.

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They are trained, with senior citizens in the community.

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What they do is they teach them valuable technology. Skills,.

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Some that our teens may take for granted,.

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But are very useful in other populations of our community.

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We've learned during covid the importance of being.

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Connected and most would agree that technology is key.

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Thinking about cyber-seniors,, why does it benefit older adults to receive technology training??

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Thank you for asking.

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Covid has definitely changed the way we see the world, the way we operate in it,, and that goes for youth as well as senior citizens.

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A program like this is what we will call inter-generational in that the youth are able to provide service to.

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Their community by teaching these skills that many of them may.

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Learn in school or just from being around and then.

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The seniors get the benefit of learning tech skills that will help to close that digital divide.

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They're able to learn how to do things., especially in this covid time,.

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Many more things are virtual,. Many more things are socially distanced,.

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So that leaves them sometimes in a deficit of skill that would be able to do that.

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Vernelle,, can you share the type of classes that the summer youth program will offer during the summer months and provide contact information for viewers interested in learning more about the program?.

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Absolutely. we worked hard and we've worked in partnership with.

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The baltimore county department of aging to put together a really exciting lineup of classes for the summer.

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They'll run for five weeks.. They will include zoom, how to get on zoom, how to operate within zoom, online banking,.

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Social media like facebook and instagram, shopping online,.

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How do you order food online, delivery, food as well as groceries, online.

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How to requests and operate within.

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A telehealth appointment for your medical care and even entertainment, like youtube.

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The workshops are going to be set up so that we have.

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A beginner level, as well as an advanced level.

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beginner classes, will be monday,. Wednesday, friday, and the advanced courses will be tuesday, thursday.

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If there are folks who are interested in the program,.

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Baltimore county department of aging will handle all the registration.

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But if there's anyone who is requesting.

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More information about 4-h, because cyber-seniors and this project,.

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Summer stem is only one project that we work on and we had for youth.

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We have over 100 different programming project areas that they can learn. It.

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If anyone's interested in learning more about 4-h,.

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You can give a call to our extension office up in cockeysville and the number is 410-887-8090.

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Vernelle,, thank you for being a guest on today's show..

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This program will be a benefit to so many..

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Thank you for having me.

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That's today's show.

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Thank you for spending your time with us..

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Please remember you can call, the department of aging's information line called maryland access point of baltimore, county or map at.

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410-887-2594 with questions pertaining to older adults and persons with disabilities.

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This show may also be viewed anytime on the internet at.

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Www.Baltimorecountymd.Gov/Videos with open captioning.

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That brings us to the conclusion of this edition of the time of your life,.

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A national mature media awards, winner about the services and contemporary topics that keep you living connected.

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As a final note,, please consider getting vaccinated as soon as possible.

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for those who remain unvaccinated,.

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Please continue to wear a mask when you're indoors, at public places till next time. we'll see you then.